10 Iconic Fictional Swords!

Freelance illustrator and animator Robert Shaw created an infographic displaying 10 of the most iconic swords in fiction. It's a great list, although it does rather prompt a "What, no Excalibur?" response. The graphic includes swords from The Hobbit, Highlander, Thundercats, Kill Bill, Conan, and more.

Other than Excalibur, what other swords would you include on this list?

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[Janx]

No lightsaber either.

A light sabre would be more recognizable than the Kill Bill sword.

The test of "iconic" is if you show a picture of the sword, I know what it is.

Kill Bill's generic looking katana is not iconic.

Even the stupid Buster Sword is at least recognizable as "that stupidly named unwieldy sword from Final Fantasy"

 

[Faradon]

and what about the triple sword/ 3-bladed sword from the sword and the sorcerer...

 

[Lord Rasputin]

Excalibur and Stormbringer have not had highly popular visual media representations, so he cannot draw such representations for us.

I confess to paying more attention to a scantily-clad Helen Mirren, but might I draw your attention to a 1981 film called Excalibur? And it was quite popular at the time.

 

[Umbran]

I confess to paying more attention to a scantily-clad Helen Mirren, but might I draw your attention to a 1981 film called Excalibur? And it was quite popular at the time.

And, if someone flashed a pic of the sword used in that film, would anyone recognize it? Probably not.

 

[Ryujin]

And, if someone flashed a pic of the sword used in that film, would anyone recognize it? Probably not.

True enough, but I think that the description of Stormbringer is good enough that people might guess an image based on it.

 

[werekraken]

It is more a display of 10 iconic swords from visual media. As such, it should have included Excalibur from the movie of the same name.

If it were to have been swords from fiction, its list would have been different. I would have liked to see Grayswandir. And I second Terminus Est from the Books of the New Sun. Stormbringer of course. Graywand and Scalpal (Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser) mayhaps.

 

[Wrathamon]

While I agree that Excalibur and Storm-bringer are missing, he doesn't say the Top 10 Most Iconic.... he says 10 of the most, which leads me to think that there are more than just these 10 and these might not be the Top 10.

 

[Wrathamon]

i would also say that all but the blood oath seem like good candidates because they are visually recognizable. And, excalibur does have many different visualizations over the years so it might not be easy to pick which one is the most iconic.

Black Razor is missing

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

So make our own list. Some nominations:

1. Excalibur
2. Stormbringer / Mournblade
3. Durandel
4. Narsil / Anduril / Sting / Glamdring / Orcrist
5. Greyswandir
6. Sword of Shannara
7. Greywand / Scalpel
8. Callandor
9. Pick you favorite of 12 Swords of Power
10. Lightsaber
11. Blackrazor
12. Fragarach
13. Hrunting
14. Chandrahasa
15. Vorpal Sword
16. Sword of Truth
17. Ice / Needle / Lightbringer
18. Icingdeath / Twinkle
19. Sword of Gryffndoor
20. The Singing Sword
Bonus: The Sick Sword

 

[Minigiant]

No Soul Calibur or Soul Edge? Really? If you want to illustrate, they are enchanting ones.